Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006

Average customer rating: 3.0

Clunky Software
It's not what it seems
Easy to use home office accounting package.
OK IF YOU DON'T NEED PAYROLL SERVICE
Adequate for a small products business

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Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006

Manufacturer: Microsoft
Product Group: Software
Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: B000A76ZR0
2005-08-16

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Amazon.com Product Description

Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006 is a comprehensive financial management program designed for companies with up to 25 employees. It allows small business owners and office managers to manage their business financials using software that is easy to set up and has the familiar look and feel of Microsoft Office 2003. With Small Business Accounting 2006, companies with employees already familiar with Microsoft Office products can save hours of training and set-up time. This easy-to-use, comprehensive accounting software can help small businesses reduce costs by helping them make more informed decisions and work more efficiently. <table align=right width=250 cellpadding=10> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/msaccounting-2-sm.gif" border=1 align=top>

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The Company Home page provides a centralized, customizable view of critical business information. View larger</td></tr></table> Small Business Accounting 2006 has everything you need to manage your company's financials -- accounting, inventory management, sales order and purchase order processing, job tracking, banking, and even payroll. Designed to be quickly installed in-house (an easy startup wizard helps users get set up, connected, and working in less than an hour), Small Business Accounting 2006 is as quick and convenient as it gets while still offering the robust accounting features that today's businesses demand. If you have existing financial information, an import wizard allows you to transfer your existing financial data from QuickBooks or Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Excel 2002. With this software, you can manage your accounts efficiently by creating customized quotes, invoices, and purchase orders; manage inventory; track payroll and time sheets; forecast cash flow; and much more. Online banking tools can also help you manage multiple bank accounts and stay on top of customer billing and payments. When it's time to pay your employees, you can process your payroll online seamlessly and efficiently with Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP). Microsoft has partnered with ADP, the leading provider of payroll solutions to small businesses for more than 50 years, to provide a wide range of integrated payroll services to meet your business needs. For an additional fee, ADP gives you the tools to manage employee data, calculate payroll, print checks, run payroll reports, and file your payroll taxes. ADP also offers payroll services that handle all the facets of the payroll process. When you're in business, you know how valuable your time is. ADP will take care of your payroll so you can spend your time building your business. Every business owner knows how important it is to stay ahead of the curve in today's economy. With more than 60 easily customizable lists and reports, you can forecast and track cash flow, inventory, and sales. The cash flow management tool allows you to plan for multiple scenarios, view numbers for a designated time period, and change data to conduct your own "what if" scenarios. No matter how much previous accounting experience you have, Small Business Accounting 2006 is easy to use. Whether you want to track transactions with vendors and customers, record banking activity, coordinate payroll, or create and track quotes, purchase orders, and statements, you don't need a technical consultant to help you. The Small Business Accounting 2006 startup wizard helps you to set up the program to suit your company's needs. Best of all, Small Business Accounting 2006 shares information with other leading Microsoft Office programs, such as Microsoft Office Word 2003, Excel 2003, Access 2003, and Outlook 2003. This not only saves you in training costs, but it also greatly reduces the time your company takes transferring and updating data. In fact, employees with Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update can perform account maintenance functions -- such as creating quotes, orders and invoices -- without ever leaving Outlook. Outlook updates information in Small Business Accounting 2006 in real time, making data re-entry unnecessary while saving time and reducing errors. These documents can then be customized in Word to sharpen their professional appearance. Using Outlook with Business Contact Manager Update also provides employees with complete and up-to-date account information on any client, enabling better, more informed customer service. This same mechanism allows the company owner or manager to get a one-stop overview of customer account information. In short, Small Business Accounting 2006 is a solution that fits the unique needs of every small business. Regardless of whether your business is growing rapidly, or whether is just needs a simpler and more efficient process, this integrated software package provides all of the tools you will need to finish your tasks quickly, keep on top of the big picture, and have more time to spend on what matters most to you.

Note: Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006 can be purchased as a stand-alone product, or as an integrated component of Microsoft Office Small Business Management Edition 2006.

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Microsoft Office SB Accounting 2006 Win32 English US Only CD

Customer Reviews:

Clunky Software.......2007-03-24

I had high hopes for Microsoft's SBA program, however, it does not stack up to QuickBooks.

Cons:
- Unable to open file using a file server. For some strange reason, it requires you to have Microsoft's SQL (database) server installed in order to have it served through a file server. This serves as a limitation because it forces you to purchase another Microsoft license. In a small business environment, a user should be able to open their books through any file server.

- Clunky. Another irritating aspect is that it opens a different program window on the task bar for each task that you open. If you multi-task, you will see many icons on your task bar, instead of managing your windows within the program under the menu bar. Navigation is also clunky where it feels like Outlook.

- Reports are limited. It may be that I have not figured it out yet (see above "clunky"), but I'm unable to find a way to easily customize my reports. It forces you to print detailed reconciliation reports (with many pages), instead of a summary.

- CTRL-F (Find). How hard is it to implement CTRL-F and be able to pull up a search box? Transactions are hard to find with SBA. As your book grows, an easily accessible search box is needed to find a check, invoice, and other transactions.

Pros: A QuickBooks alternative.

If you're a small business owner, it's best that you stick with QuickBooks. It's almost a standard for micro/small businesses.

It's not what it seems.......2007-01-10

I was told it was the same as Quick books! but for a fration of the price!
Theres no such thing as a good deal!
The only way to get this work right is to buy the rest of the software and then im sure it would be fine but then your paying more than Quick Books..
Its only a module!

Easy to use home office accounting package........2007-01-04

I used QuickBooks and Quicken in the past and decided to try Microsoft Small Business Accounting and found it much easier to use. The flow is very intuitive with customization of invoicing and purchase orders being very easy with standard Microsoft Office products. I do recommend that the user read the manual first, it does help significantly. The most beneficial aspect of the software was the ability to do journal entries to correct items entered in the graphical interface. If all else fails simply do an accounting entry in the journal to correct things. Hats off to Microsoft on this one, it works well, is easy to use, and integrates with Microsoft Office.

OK IF YOU DON'T NEED PAYROLL SERVICE.......2007-01-02

Though I received two free copies with some hardware, I will not be using Microsoft SBA because it's payroll services are really bad. If you want to get payroll taxes, etc. to do your employee's checks, you can sign up for a service, but the service is an online company for which data is EXCHANGED with SBA. Internet always required, multiple levels of passwords, what data is going out ? To avoid this you can find the tax rates yourself and use Excel to calculate payrolls and then EXCHANGE DATA with SBA. This takes about 4-5 times as much effort as Quickbooks' automatic DOWNLOADS and, if you go with the online company, costs three times as much as does Quickbooks' equivalent service. Too bad that SBA has this fatal flaw because I really liked the layout and feel of the program.

Adequate for a small products business.......2006-12-17

We now have seven months experience using Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 (MSO SBA) to manage accounts for a product development company with a fairly small transaction volume. It has proven adequate for the job, but it has irritating quirks and key limitations. Some scrollbars do not scroll. Some displays jump after they are updated. Some selections take one click, and others take two. Some screens have a button for a function that on other screens is found in a menu. Several displays have extremely poor contrast.

The chart of accounts is limited to two levels. In our experience the built-in banking and payroll functions were not usable. They are both tied to vendors: a single bank that has no branches in our area, and a single payroll vendor using a company model with only hourly wages, no direct deposit, and no departments or other cost centers. Reconciliation of accounts is cumbersome and may fail; we use the register checkboxes and a calculator.

Microsoft touts the integration of MSO SBA with Office, but we found it of limited use. After forms such as invoices are exported to Word, extra work is needed to format them because MSO SBA provides rigid models and no macros. Potential usefulness of Excel is limited because, out-of-the-box, MSO SBA can only export. However, we found a reasonably priced add-in from DpDynamics of Morgantown, WV, that imports transactions from Excel. We currently use it in combination with data downloads from our payroll vendor to implement a departmental payroll, and we are planning to use it to calculate and import sales commissions and multistate sales taxes.

At the Amazon price, MSO SBA is a bargain, provided you are willing to ride out its quirks and do some work on the side as we do with the DpDynamics add-in. We have two network-coupled copies in the office and got a third for our accountant. We installed each of the three service packs issued to date. So far, we have had no trouble with essential functions and no garbled data or data loss.

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